{"id":1275916,"date":"2022-02-06T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275916"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T16:37:44","slug":"jake-tapper-slams-china-for-using-uyghur-muslim-torch-bearer-as-a-human-shield-and-everyone-else-for-allowing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tapper-slams-china-for-using-uyghur-muslim-torch-bearer-as-a-human-shield-and-everyone-else-for-allowing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Tapper Slams China For Using Uyghur Muslim Torch-Bearer As A Human Shield \u2014 And Everyone Else For Allowing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjake-tapper-slams-china-for-using-uyghur-muslim-torch-bearer-as-a-human-shield-and-everyone-else-for-allowing-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1165418679-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN anchor Jake Tapper unloaded on the Chinese Communist Party for essentially using a Uyghur Muslim as a human shield to deflect challenges to the government\u2019s long-term systematic abuse of the minority population.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper concluded Sunday morning\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union\u201d with a comparison \u2014 between China\u2019s decision to have a Uyghur Muslim <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/china-chooses-uyghur-athlete-for-olympic-ceremony-amid-ongoing-genocide-fading-interest-in-games\/\">carry the symbolic Olympic torch<\/a> in Beijing and Nazi Germany\u2019s plan to prop up a fencer of Jewish ancestry in 1936 \u2014 and he said that both oppressive regimes were essentially using them to deflect criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Helene Meyer, one of the greatest fencers who ever lived. Though her athletic dreams were compromised after Adolf Hitler came to power in her home country Germany and the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, stripping her of her rights because Meyer\u2019s father was Jewish,\u201d Tapper began. \u201cMeyer got a second chance, however, as a movement spread throughout the world to boycott the international Olympic Games in 1936 because of host country Germany\u2019s religious persecution of Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper went on to explain that Meyer was selected to represent her home country of Germany \u2014 despite essentially being forced to flee oppression there a year earlier \u2014leaving her new home in California to represent Germany in Berlin\u2019s 1936 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is an Associated Press story from March 1936 that shows the successful results of his plan. Quote, \u2018Despite a tendency in some quarters to rock the boat, official Germany has banned racial or religious discrimination in athletics, the famous girl fencer of Jewish extraction, Helene Meyer, has been welcomed back home and named to represent Germany in the Olympics. Visiting Jews, whether athletes or spectators, will be safer from indignities here than they would be on any New York subway during rush hour,\u2019 unquote,\u201d Tapper read. \u201cThen you see the subhead there, \u2018No anti-Semitism.\u2019 Yes, I\u2019m talking about Germany in 1936.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you about Helene Meyer and how she served as the way the Nazi German government could pretend in 1936 to be something other than the monsters they were because the Chinese government seems to have learned from her example,\u201d Tapper continued. \u201cOn Friday the torch for the Beijing Olympic Games was lit by two athletes, one of whom was a cross-country skier for the Chinese team, a woman whom the Chinese government says has ancestral roots in the ethnic Muslim minority, the Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Let the shames begin.&#8221; Amid the Winter Olympics in Beijing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JakeTapper<\/a> calls out corporations and nations from around the world for continuing to fight for Chinese money while ignoring China&#8217;s human rights violations against the Uyghur population. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PWoOBxIHCZ\">pic.twitter.com\/PWoOBxIHCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1490361851988918274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tapper noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-appears-to-dance-around-question-on-if-they-believe-china-still-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs\/\">oppression of Uyghurs<\/a> is now common knowledge worldwide and includes forced sterilization, torture, forced labor, and internment \u2014 among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an accusation the Chinese government denies, of course, despite clear evidence of their atrocities, so clear that the U.S. and other countries are currently diplomatically boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games,\u201d Tapper continued. \u201cSo Helene Meyer in 1936 and this athlete in 2022 are being used to serve the same purpose. Now, the governments are not fooling anyone who is paying attention, but their roles in the Olympics allow the folks who are willing to put their morality on hold \u2026 to pretend otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen this play out before. The embarrassing double standard that the NBA and Hollywood, for example, regularly display when righteously calling out injustices here in the U.S. while self-censoring about Chinese government atrocities,\u201d&nbsp;<\/span>Tapper<span>&nbsp;added, noting that major companies like Coca-cola had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/knee-jerk-hypocritical-and-illegal-mlb-sued-for-boycotting-georgia-over-election-reforms\/\">boycotted the state of Georgia<\/a> over a voter-integrity law but had nothing to say about China when it came to advertising during the Olympic Games. \u201cWe\u2019ve covered this before and we will continue to do so the way American corporations ignore literal genocide and forced labor in the pursuit of Chinese cash. It is disgusting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tapper went on to say that the diplomatic boycotts were all well and good, but an unwillingness to take a financial hit by pulling sponsors or making direct accusations was truly what was telling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure which is worse, ignoring the human rights crimes or as some nations seem to have decided, to care more about China\u2019s investments in their countries than this genocide. Because while the U.S. and a handful of other countries are diplomatically boycotting these games over human rights issues, the vast majority of the world, including majority Muslim countries, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and the UAE are refusing to boycott the games, taking a stand against the crimes against the Uyghurs,\u201d Tapper concluded, arguing that the real global competition appeared to be among the nations vying to be the best at helping Chinese President Xi \u201cin his desire to pretend the genocide is not going on, to pretend the crimes against humanity are not going on. That\u2019s a competition rivaling the competition among the athletes. Let the shames begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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